About Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV)

Carriage Services, Inc. is a provider of death care services and merchandise in the United States. The Company operates in two business segments: Funeral Home Operations and Cemetery Operations. The Funeral Homes segment provides funeral services (traditional burial and cremation) and sells related merchandise, such as caskets and urns. Its cemetery products and services include interment services, the rights to interment in cemetery sites and related cemetery merchandise, such as memorials and vaults. It serves suburban and rural markets. It provides funeral and cemetery services and products on both at-need (time of death) and preneed (planned prior to death) basis. It also maintains trusts in connection with funeral home and cemetery operations, including preneed funeral trusts, preneed cemetery merchandise and service trusts and cemetery perpetual care trusts. The Company operates 174 funeral homes in 29 states and 32 cemeteries in 11 states.

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Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) Frequently Asked Questions

What is Carriage Services' stock symbol?

Carriage Services trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CSV."

How often does Carriage Services pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Carriage Services?

Carriage Services declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 26th. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.075 per share on Thursday, March 1st. This represents a $0.30 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.04%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 9th. View Carriage Services' Dividend History.

How will Carriage Services' stock buyback program work?

Carriage Services announced that its board has initiated a stock repurchase program on Thursday, October 26th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $15,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

How were Carriage Services' earnings last quarter?

Carriage Services, Inc. (NYSE:CSV) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 14th. The company reported $0.39 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.40 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $65.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $65.34 million. Carriage Services had a return on equity of 13.27% and a net margin of 14.41%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 3.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.36 EPS. View Carriage Services' Earnings History.

What guidance has Carriage Services issued on next quarter's earnings?

Carriage Services updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 14th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.00-$2.05 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $2.07. The company issued revenue guidance of $280-$285 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $276.30 million.

Where is Carriage Services' stock going? Where will Carriage Services' stock price be in 2018?

Has Carriage Services been receiving favorable news coverage?

News coverage about CSV stock has been trending positive on Monday, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Carriage Services earned a coverage optimism score of 0.25 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company an impact score of 44.40 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

Which major investors are selling Carriage Services stock?

CSV stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Keeley Teton Advisors LLC, PEAK6 Investments L.P., Falcon Point Capital LLC, Millennium Management LLC, Cutler Group LP, Meadow Creek Investment Management LLC, Allianz Asset Management GmbH and Flinton Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Carriage Services company stock in the last year include Adeola Olaniyan, Mark R Bruce, Melvin C Payne and Shawn R Phillips. View Insider Buying and Selling for Carriage Services.

Which major investors are buying Carriage Services stock?

CSV stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Mendel Money Management, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, LSV Asset Management, DF Dent & Co. Inc., Westwood Holdings Group Inc. and Mork Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Carriage Services stock in the last two years include Barry K Fingerhut, Bryan Leibman, Carl Benjamin Brink, David J Decarlo and James Raymond Schenck. View Insider Buying and Selling for Carriage Services.

How do I buy shares of Carriage Services?

Shares of CSV can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

What is Carriage Services' stock price today?

One share of CSV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $28.72.

How big of a company is Carriage Services?

Carriage Services has a market capitalization of $459.70 million and generates $258.14 million in revenue each year. The company earns $37.19 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.11 on an earnings per share basis. Carriage Services employs 2,659 workers across the globe.

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